Rookery Cottages

ROOKERY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198048
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Rookery Cottages
Statutory Address:
ROOKERY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198048
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Rookery Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
ROOKERY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROOKERY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham
National Grid Reference:
TM 32428 83415

Details

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. NICHOLAS TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS

4/33 1 & 2 Rookery Cottages -

GV II

House, divided into 2 cottages. Late C16. 2 storeys and attics; 3-cell form. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles; an internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. Various old 2-light and 3-light casement windows, some small-paned, with pintle hinges. Plank door to No.2, probably in the original cross entry position. Apart from the main beams on both floors, and wallplates, all timbers are covered. The upper ceilings are original. Good roof, with full principals, cut away for the insertion of clasped purlins, and arched windbraces, some removed.

Listing NGR: TM3242883415

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
282293
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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